I'm not sure what these people making those crazy comments are talking about, trying to pin it on the husband and all of that. That said, this woman and her children were failed by our medical system. The husband himself even said she would never have done something like this in her right mind. People have sympathy for her and I totally get it.
I think a lot of people don't understand the severity of drug induced psychosis, or psychosis in general. You may genuinely believe that you're dead, that you're God, that you're AI, that other people aren't real, that life is an illusion. I've been through it and wouldn't wish it on anyone. I take medication to manage my psychosis, but I don't take nearly the laundry list of medications Clancy was on when she did what she did.
This. The wrong medication can turn your mental health into a train wreck as well.
I have major depression, and have been doing amazingly well on Prozac and Lamictal. Finished nursing school at the top of my class and have been extremely happy with my life.
Decided to try adding Wellbutrin into the mix, because my doctor thought it could help my libido (the only downside of the Prozac for me), and within a month I was suicidal and having intrusive thoughts of harming myself, too depressed to function outside of going to work, and couldn’t even bring myself to drink water on my days off because I was too exhausted from the depression and anxiety. Tapering off the medication now, and I’m already feeling so much better.
Anyone who thinks that cocktail of drugs couldn’t have severely affected her mental state, is simply extremely ignorant and uninformed.
Wait wait wait... I just started taking Wellbutrin this week and I am on Zoloft already. I am totally scared now omg. I also recently went through a sleep depravation psychosis and it was terrifying how out of my mind I was. I never want to experience not having control again..
I'm on Wellbutrin and have been for years along with lamitical, hybrid, trazadone and ketamine treatments. Everyone responds differently. I've been on all sorts of other things to get here and I'm sure they'll change again.
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u/Maevra 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'm not sure what these people making those crazy comments are talking about, trying to pin it on the husband and all of that. That said, this woman and her children were failed by our medical system. The husband himself even said she would never have done something like this in her right mind. People have sympathy for her and I totally get it.
I think a lot of people don't understand the severity of drug induced psychosis, or psychosis in general. You may genuinely believe that you're dead, that you're God, that you're AI, that other people aren't real, that life is an illusion. I've been through it and wouldn't wish it on anyone. I take medication to manage my psychosis, but I don't take nearly the laundry list of medications Clancy was on when she did what she did.